Chair Peak
| Chair Peak | ||
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| height | 1000 m | |
| location | Rongé Island , Graham Land , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 43 '4 " S , 62 ° 43' 11" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Chair Peak (English for chair tip is) a 1000 m high mountain on the Rongé Island before the Danco Coast of the West Antarctic Graham Lands . It looms west of Mount Britannia .
The British geologists Maxime Charles Lester (1891–1957) and Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe (1901–1976), who were part of the British Imperial Antarctic Expedition (1920–1922) led by John Lachlan Copes (1893–1947) between January 1921 and January Were stationed at the nearby Waterboat Point in 1922 , gave the mountain its descriptive name and used it as a striking landmark for their geodetic surveying work.
Web links
- Chair Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Chair Peak on geographic.org (English)